Automotive
It's no secret that Los Angeles is notorious for its traffic jams, typically ranking first in studies of the nation's traffic hot spots. Estimates suggest that Angelinos spend an extra 120 hours a year stuck in them. While ...
Nov 13, 2020
0
70
Electronics & Semiconductors
Supercomputers are extremely fast, but also use a lot of power. Neuromorphic computing, which takes our brain as a model to build fast and energy-efficient computers, can offer a viable and much-needed alternative. The technology ...
Apr 12, 2022
0
280
Computer Sciences
MIT researchers have developed a model that recovers valuable data lost from images and video that have been "collapsed" into lower dimensions.
Oct 16, 2019
0
95
Energy & Green Tech
For all the advances enabled by artificial intelligence, from speech recognition to self-driving cars, AI systems consume a lot of power and can generate high volumes of climate-changing carbon emissions.
Jul 3, 2020
0
289
Engineering
In an example of the adage "everything old is new again," MIT engineers report a new discovery in semiconductors, well-known materials that have been the focus of intense study for over 100 years thanks to their many applications ...
Aug 15, 2022
1
269
Machine learning & AI
Perspective is the technique that enables objects to be represented in three dimensions on a flat surface by giving them an effect of depth. During the Renaissance, linear perspective revolutionized Italian painting, notably ...
Aug 18, 2021
0
374
Hardware
There is an intense, worldwide search for novel materials to build computer microchips with that are not based on classic transistors but on much more energy-saving, brain-like components. However, whereas the theoretical ...
Oct 17, 2023
0
180
Robotics
When humans look at a scene, they see objects and the relationships between them. On top of your desk, there might be a laptop that is sitting to the left of a phone, which is in front of a computer monitor.
Nov 29, 2021
0
124
Electronics & Semiconductors
Over the past decade or so, many researchers worldwide have been trying to develop brain-inspired computer systems, also known as neuromorphic computing tools. The majority of these systems are currently used to run deep ...
Computer Sciences
Hashing is a core operation in most online databases, like a library catalog or an e-commerce website. A hash function generates codes that replace data inputs. Since these codes are shorter than the actual data, and usually ...
Mar 13, 2023
0
92
